{"id":213291,"date":"2025-05-05T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-quantum-theory-of-gravity-brings-long-sought-theory-of-everything-a-crucial-step-closer"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:34:25","slug":"new-quantum-theory-of-gravity-brings-long-sought-theory-of-everything-a-crucial-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-quantum-theory-of-gravity-brings-long-sought-theory-of-everything-a-crucial-step-closer","title":{"rendered":"New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought \u2018theory of everything\u2019 a crucial step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-theory-of-gravity-brings-long-sought-theory-of-everything-a-crucial-step-closer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces\u2014electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces\u2014is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the goal of generations of physicists, who have struggled to reconcile the incompatibility of two cornerstones of modern physics: quantum field theory and Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Aalto University have developed a new quantum theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravity<\/a> which describes gravity in a way that\u2019s compatible with the standard model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding of how the universe began.<\/p>\n<p>While the world of theoretical physics may seem remote from applicable tech, the findings are remarkable. Modern technology is built on such fundamental advances\u2014for example, the GPS in your smartphone works thanks to Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces\u2014electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces\u2014is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the goal of generations of physicists, who have struggled to reconcile the incompatibility of two cornerstones of modern physics: quantum field theory and Einstein\u2019s theory of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}